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Solution: Minimum Number of K Consecutive Bit Flips

Explore a method to find the minimum flips needed to convert a binary array to all ones by flipping k consecutive bits at a time. Understand how to track flips and determine when flipping is possible to solve the problem efficiently with a linear time algorithm.

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We are given a binary arrayAn array consisting of 0s and 1s only. nums and an integer k. Our task is to find the minimum number of flipsChanging a 0 to a 1 or a 1 to a 0. needed to make all the bits in the array equal to 11. However, we can only flip k consecutive bits at a time. So, for a binary array [1,1,0 ...